Tennis
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Puri: Viewing business as a sport explains why wealthy founders keep working
“If you think about business not as a mechanism to make money, but as a sport you play, then it's like, oh, of course, just because you're great at tennis and you won a tournament doesn't mean you'll stop playing tennis. Why would you do that? That's your sport…”
Preysman: Pickleball lacks the history needed for luxury streetwear brands
“Well, it is a hot sport, but I, you know, what I would say is I'm not sure yet it has the aspiration. You know, it's, it doesn't have the rich history that call that tennis and golf have that allow it to play in the world of streetwear and luxury. So I just th…”
Sam Lessin: Pickleball forced tennis to reinvest, like snowboarding did for skiing
“I think this is one of the unintended consequences of the rise of pickleball, which is the most ridiculous sport, which is, it just, this is kind of what happens. It's like, you get like a snowboarding, and then skiing gets really good, because you're like, fu…”
Sam Lessin: Padel is tennis for billionaires, pickleball is for old people
“Padel is like tennis for billionaires. Tennis is like for millionaires and pickleball is for old people.”
Almost all top-earning female athletes globally are professional tennis players
“And if you look at the list of top earning athletes every year, the only women are almost all tennis players.”
Loehr: Ritualized 16-second breaks enable complete physiological recovery in tennis
“We developed this, what is called the 16:02 cure in tennis, where in 16 seconds between points, when you ritualize it, you can get complete and total recovery, and we validated that in using telemetry, heart rate telemetry.”
Allemann: On Running will expand into full-body apparel and tennis by 2028
“On in five years will be a global sports brand that still very much resonates with our core community, with runners, but also has built a second sport called tennis, and is happening for you on the full body. So not only shoes, but very much also apparel, beca…”
Wertheim: Tennis is one of the most underleveraged assets in sports
“To me, it's one of the great, if we're going to stay in business terms, this is one of the great under leveraged assets. I mean, this sport to me has so much going for it.”
Wertheim: Tennis lags behind other sports in data analytics adoption
“Tennis does not do very well on the analytics front, and I don't know if that is just It hasn't thought creatively. I don't know if it's the fact that it's not like you can rig up an NBA arena and you're good for 40 days, right? I mean, this is a circuit, so i…”